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February 1, 2011 Bloomberg

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Conclusion • In 1981, Michael Bloomberg was fired from Salomon Brothers and was given a $10 million severance package. • Using this money, Bloomberg went on to set up a company named Innovative Market Systems • In 1986, the company was renamed Bloomberg L.P. • Bloomberg has since grown to be the most-used and arguably the best financial information platform • Michael Bloomberg came to be the 10th richest person in the United States and NYC mayor from 2002 until today Bloomberg

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Equities Fixed Income • a subscription is around US$1500 per month, depending Excel API on status and included package Conclusion • 30,146 functions • 300 000 subscribers

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Alexandre Beaulne The Bloomberg software roughly has a tree structure, with the Introduction Main menu as the trunk and the market sectors as the main Getting Started branches: News

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Excel API • 2000 journalists + 6000 news contributors Conclusion • customization • Search filters • Archives • Alerts • etc Bloomberg

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Conclusion • NSE : Filter news by region, market sector, etc • EQS : Equity screening • ANR : Analyst recommendations, precision, sentiments, etc • PPC : Peers comparison Bloomberg

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Getting Started Useful functions: News Equities • ECO : Economic calendar Fixed Income • BTMM : All major interest rates benchmarks by Excel API country Conclusion • BYFC : Bond yield forecasts • GC : Term structure • SRCH : Bond search • YAS : Yield and Spread analysis • DDIS : Debt distribution of a company Bloomberg

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Excel API The two most important excel-bloomberg functions: Conclusion =BDP() and =BDH() Bloomberg

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Equities Fixed Income =BDP() stands for “Bloomberg Data Point”, and is used to Excel API obtain all kinds of contemporary data about securities on Conclusion Bloomberg. Syntax: =BDP(‘security’,‘field’) Bloomberg

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Equities Fixed Income =BDH() stands for “Bloomberg Data History”, and is used to Excel API obtain all kinds of historical data about securities on Conclusion Bloomberg. Syntax: =BDH(‘security’,‘field’,‘start date’,‘end date’) Bloomberg

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Getting Started How to get help: News Equities • If at the Markets Room, ask an operator, there is always Fixed Income one present Excel API • Press key once to access help pages on a topic Conclusion • Press key twice to chat with Bloomberg help desk Bloomberg

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News Equities • TOP : Top news for the day, by order of Fixed Income importance Excel API • ECO: Important economics releases calendar Conclusion • CHEAT : Cheat sheets of Bloomberg functions in pdf • GP : If on the page of a securities, graph its price time series Bloomberg

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